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Technical Co-operation in Surveying and Mapping including Remote Sensing whether bi-late-
ral on multi-lateral assumes many forms depending on the requirements of the recipient nations,
and what the donor countries have to offer. (1) has aptly summarised the Technical Co-opera-
tion activities of the ECA under three heads. These are those relating to —
(a) developing of national Cartography and Remote Sensing capabilities, including assessment
of man-power needs,
(b) institution building establishments of ‘Regional and sub Regional Institutions; promotion
of intra- African and inter regional co-operation in the dissemination of technical informa-
tion, direct assistance from one country to another.
(c) multi-lateral technical — co operation for cntinental projects.
Within.the framework of these broad outlines, technical co-operation projects based upon the
requirement and the offer of the receiving and donor countries respectively are carefully prepared
and processed in a well defined acceptable manner. It will be a step in the right direction to iden-
tify along these broad outlines the nature or the type of technical co-operation which is required
by individual developing country and what can be given by individual developed donor countries.
Virtually all countries in Africa are poor. In terms of Surveying and Mapping including Remo-
te Sensing which forms the foundation of social and economic development, some countries are
undeveloped while others are developing. The needs of these countries vary from one to another.
It is therefore safe to assume that most countries in Africa desire Technical Co-operation for
their development efforts to succeed. On the other hand, (2) has listed Funding Agencies and
DONOR organisations in respect of Technical Co-operation granted to different countries in
Africa in sectors other than Surveying and Mapping including Remote Sensing. Many of these
are also in a position to co-operate in Surveying and Mapping and Remote Sensing, and in fact
are known to have been involved in technical co-operation in Surveying and Mapping and
Remote Sensing activities. Efforts should be made to identify available offers from these Agen-
cies and donor organisations. The same should apply to other organisations which are in a posi-
tion to offer technical assistance to developing countries. It will be of tremendous use to identify
the developing countries with which the donor organisations and or agencies will like to collabo-
rate.
The problems besetting technical co-operation with developing Countries have been outlined
in (1) and (2). Solutions to such problems have to be devised. Co-operation in any manner isa
two-way or mu lti-manner affair, — an affair between the co-operators — there are, the donors on
the one hand and the receiving countries on the other. The problems have to be viewed from the
perspectives of the co-operating countries, and solutions designed to remove all obstacles to the
success of technical co-operation efforts.
An over-view of current Technical Co-operation efforts in Surveying and Mapping including
Remote Sensing, vis avis the task definitions of the Working Group seems to lead to several
questions, answers to which would make Technical Co-operation efforts bi-lateral or multi-late-
ral effective and thus successful, These questions have been incorporated into a format of ques-
tionnaires which has been simply designed and which is being cleared with the Working Group
members. Thereafter the questionnaires will be mailed to different countries for the collection of
data which will serve as in-put into the performance of the task of the Working Group. It is to be
hoped that the analysis of the data to be so toilected will draw the developed and developing
countries more closely together, in a bid to improve the quality of life in developing countsres-
and making such countries self-reliant, and self sustaining in their developmental efforts.
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